Tripod Headstand How-to: Video Tutorial Below:
December 14th marked yoga pioneer B.K.S. Iyengar’s 92nd birthday, So it seemed fitting that I should stand on my head in homage. In his lifetime and partially due to his influence, Iyengar has watched yoga evolve and expand from a mysterious spiritual practice based in India to a worldwide mind/body phenomenon. Whether you practice Anusara or Ashtanga, Bikram or Baptiste, Prana Flow or Forrest, there’s little doubt that traces of Iyengar’s system, both large and small, are found in your classes, today. Known for his intense and meticulous approach to alignment, emphasis on scaling the asana practice to suit all levels of students (with props, lots of props!), ability to heal physical and emotional ailments through yoga, and the belief that the body should be used as the vehicle for meditation, Iyengar is quite simply one of the most influential yogis of our time.
His book Light on Yoga poetically describes the benefits of headstands as follows:
Regular and precise practice of sirsasana develops the body, disciplines the mind, and widens the horizons of the spirit. One becomes balanced and self-reliant in the pain and pleasure, loss and gain, shame and fame, defeat and victory.
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